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Consumer Study Finds Interest In Apple Branded Television Near 50 Percent
The Apple television set has long been rumored as an upcoming Apple product release. Analysts have predicted a launch anywhere from this holiday season to even a year from now. Although I am yet to believe an Apple TV set is coming, analyst Piper Jaffray has kept his belief strong. Jaffray held a survey consisting of 200 consumers from the midwest of the United States. When consumers...
Apple Suspends Password Resets Over-The-Phone After iCloud Hacking
Over this past weekend we reported that writer Mat Honan had quite a few of his personal online-accounts hacked, all due to a lack-of-security with Apple support. I'm not going to blame Apple directly because mistakes happen, but they now are working to add additional security to over-the-phone password resets. For the time being, all...
Apple Store Genius Employee Rescues Kidnapped Woman
The Apple Store Genius Bar employees can be some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. I've made rounds to the Genius Bar quite a few times for MacBook and iPhone battery issues and every time, they politely replaced what I needed without more than a few questions. So when I read that a Genius...
Apple’s New Promo Video Highlights Land Rover’s Success With iAds [VIDEO]
Apple has released the first ever iAd promotional video in an effort to sell its iOS advertising program to brands and advertisers, highlighting the success of its Land Rover iAd campaign promoting the new Range Rover Evoque, as noted by TechCrunch. The video shows executives from Land Rover and its partners praising Apple's campaign including Land Rover America’s communications...
Apple’s “Genius” TV Advertisements Have Stopped Airing During The Olympics
Back in July, Apple launched three new TV advertisements for the Mac, each of which featured an Apple Genius helping Mac users troubleshoot through their issues. In a very short explanation, the commercials presented the intelligence of an Apple Genius and the crazy unrealistic ways they go about helping Mac users. These advertisements were first aired during the opening ceremonies of...
Apple May Be Sharp’s Only Means Of Staying Afloat
Sharp's days appear to be numbered. They aren't progressing too well as a company at this point, mainly due to their consumer business of selling televisions failing during current times. According to Reuters, Sharp is cash-strapped and may actually need to dump their television business to survive. Rather then continuing on as a consumer...
Apple’s Whole Product Lineup To Receive New Dock Connector This Fall
According to a report from iMore, Apple has plans to roll out the new miniaturized dock-connector to all its products this fall. The products receiving the update will include the iPhone 5, the new iPod Nano and iPod touch, the 7-inch iPad Mini, and the 9.7 inch iPad. The source failed to note whether the current product lineup,...
Apple Outshines Competitors With Revenue And Profit Margins
You may realize that Apple doesn't sell the most smartphones during each quarter, but does that really matter? This past quarter Samsung shipped out 50 million smartphones while Apple only shipped 26 million. Sure, Samsung had a significant lead, but guess who sells a wide-range of smartphones and profited bare-minimum from each sale. The answer is Samsung....
Apple Granted Hacker Access To A Reporter’s iCloud Account
Well, this is truly shocking. On Friday, Mat Honan, a writer for Wired, had his iCloud account hacked. This resulted in a number of emails and social networking accounts of his also being hacked. Once Honan was re-granted access to his iCloud account, he was able to trace back the hacker's steps through password reset emails. Keep reading...
Apple Seeks Interest In Social Networking Site ‘The Fancy’
According to a report by Business Insider, Apple may be interested in acquiring a social network dubbed 'The Fancy'. Similar to Pinterest, users of The Fancy can "fancy" products they find interesting. The only twist is the capability of purchasing the fancied product on-site. This allows the social network to also be labeled an e-commerce...
CBS Only Wants to Be on the Apple TV–Under Their Terms
During yesterday's earning call, CBS Chief Executive Officer Les Moonves was asked about adding CBS content to the Apple TV, and as usual, he responded, “Sure! As long as it’s on our terms.” Most recently, CBS sparked deals with both Netflix and Amazon. So the question in pattern is why not the Apple TV? I...
Purported iPhone Prototype Surfaces In Bangkok [PICS]
During these past few months we've seen quite a few supposed iPhone prototypes. Just during this past week we even saw some repair parts surface. But what had stunned me about all these prototypes is the consistency. A majority of the leaked iPhone prototypes have contained 4-inch screens and 19-pin dock connectors. As the leaks...
